This quilt took me FOREVER to finish. I first began the quilt to auction off or to be a prize for a Fundraising 5K. Since the 5K was to raise money for a girl with leukemia, I decided to make it a pink colored quilt. The sad part is, my machine died three days before the 5K and I wasn’t able to get it finished in time. The good news is, the event went well, and so far the treatments have worked for our friend who had cancer.

I used a pattern from “American Patchwork & Quilting Magazine” August 2009 issue called Rhythm & Blues, only I added about a foot to the length so that it could be made into a twin sized quilt. I pieced it out on my husband’s office floor since I don’t have a design wall. Once I organized all of the squares and triangles, I quickly sewed the quilt top together before my children could destroy it.

This is the Pink and Black quilt with only a few more rows left to sew.

I then added a bright pink border and a black border. I quilted it twice, basically. The first time was quilting the edges of the black triangles with black thread. I didn’t quilt “stitch in the ditch” style, but instead opted to do a curved line from corner to corner. Then, I quilted all of the pink parts with spiral shapes which resulted in three “S” shapes in each square.

You can see the black stitching on each triangle, and the pink spirals in each pink square.

Did I forget to mention that I pieced together a backing for this quilt?

The back side of the quilt

I love how the quilting shows up so well on the back. I used white thread in the bobbin when using the pink thread for the top.

Here is the final quilt! It was also auctioned off for a youth group fundraising activity. This quilt became a wedding present to a couple whose colors were bright pink and black. I hope they love it, because I put a LOT of work into it!

The best picture I could get standing on top of my couch with my phone above my head.